ARMY OFFICERS ACTIVE IN FRONT ORGANIZATIONS; STUDENT PILOTS TO COMPLETE TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700020059-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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Military - Biographic, antiaircraft defense,
aviation
Daily newspapers
Yugoslavia
1 - 20 Jul 1951
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ARMY OFFICERS ACTIVE IN FRONT ORGANIZATIONS,
STUDENT PILOTS TO COMPLETE TRAINING
In May 1951 at a meeting of a unit under the command of Lt Col Petar
Solomun, it was established that the unit officers and noncommissioned officers
had slackened their work with front organizations. The*eason given was that
a considerable number of officers had just graduated from schools and academes
and had not immediately joined front organizations, according to the custom of
this unit. Following the meeting, a conference was held with all officers.
Later, at meetings of basic party organizations, work with the People's Front
organizations and the Savez Boraca (Association of Fighters LVeterans!)was dis-
cussed.
A few days after these meetings all officers and noncommissioned officers
joined the front organizations where they live and began cooperating with them.
In the 2 months following, the unit gave 40 different lectures to People's
Front organizations and the Association of Fighters. Especially active were
Capt Vlado Jagodic, who gave seven lectures, and Capt Slavko Corluka, who gave
two demonstrations with the help of his unit and the People's Front organization.
Captain Corluka was selected as delegate to the city conference of the People's
Front.
1st It Rudolf Mrkic gave 14 lectures to the PAZ (antiaircraft defense).
Zastavnik Dragan Milinkovic has given nine lectures in the past 2 months.
Skoplje, 30 June -- Units of the Skoplje Military Oblast and the Metohija
Military Oblast will participate in e. march on the Kosovo Plain and re-enact
the battle of Kosovo. Participating in the march will be about 20,000 members
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of the Yugoslav Army, members of the Savez Boraca (Association of Fighters
Veterans?7) from the Kosmet and from Macedonia, and members of other organ-
izations and societies. This is the first large activity organized by members
of the Skoplje Military Oblast; it is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of
the people's uprising.
units commanded by Col Nile Uzelac and Col Irdize Cejvan have thus far
contributed 94,000 work hours. They worked on 20 farm work coopera`ves in
Donji Miholjac, Valpovo, Nasice, Beli Manastir, and Osijek Srezes, on the state
farm in belje, and on other state f rms and farms.
Colonel Markovic, Major Smitran, and Major Puac.
Soldiers of the labor unit of the "Simo Solaja" Military Construction Enter-
prise contributed many volunteer work hours in Bugojno to repairing streets,
building parks, reforestation, cutting grass, and building a football field and
moving-picture theater.
During their free time, the unit plastered 700 square meters of wall area
in the theater, helped in masonry work, roofing, etc.
Fighters of the Presernova Brigade will meet in Strazisce near Kranj on
22 July. They will hold a Partisan's meeting to celebrate the eighth anniversary
of their founding. Their first commanding officer, Col Rudolf Brlbernik-Svarun,
will speak at the meeting.
PILOTS TO TRAIN AT SCHOOL AT RUMA --? Split, Slobodna Dalmacija, 9 Jul 51
All student pilots of the Federal Pilots' School are requested to submit
their correct home addresses by 15 July, because of a pending summons to complete
the second phase of their training in the pilots' school at Rums.
The request applies only to student pilots who have not completed the second
phase of their training and are not scheduled to complete it in any of the repub-
lic pilot schools in 1951.
Upon reporting, student pilots are to bring the most recent references from
the enterprise or organization with which they are connected.
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YUGOSLAV ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL AVIATION FEDERATION -- Zagreb,
Vjesnik, 15 Jul 51
Belgrade, 14 July -- It Col Mihajlo Velimirovic, general secretary of the
Yugoslav Aviation Federation, was elected vice-president of the International
Aviation Federation at its 44th general conference held in Brussels.
ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY SCHOOL HOLDS GRADUATION -- Zagreb, Vjesnik, 13 Jul 51
Another class of candidates for .active antiaircraft artillery officers
has completed schooling. In the examinations, 17 students were excellent,
47 were very good, and 39 good.
OVER 1,700 PERSONS TRAINED IN ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE -- Zagreb, Borba, 1 Jul 51
Osijek, June -- Forty-three courses in antiaircraft defense ar- being com-
pleted in Osijek. In 25 of the courses, 1,760 persons were trairid for home
defense. 'About 600 other persons, employed in industrial enterprises, were
trained for chemical and sanitation aspects of antiaircraft defense. New
courses have begun in eight enterprises.
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